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FUNGI AT HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE. 
T. GIBBS. 
THE district of Horton-in-Ribblesdale is rather wanting in those 
rich moist woodlands, with deeply bedded leaf mould, which 
mycologists find such prolific hunting grounds. On_ the 
occasion of the September excursion of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, therefore, fungi were hardly so abundant 
as we expected to see them on the last excursion of the year. 
In addition to this, although it is a curious complaint to make 
after the summer of 1907, a pleasant little spell of delayed 
summer had somewhat checked the development of the 
moisture-loving pasture species. Notwithstanding these draw- 
backs, the writer, who was spending some days in the district, 
and consequently was able to extend the area of his operations 
beyond the strict bounds of the excursion programme, with the 
assistance, on the Saturday, of Messrs J W. Tindle and - 
M. Malone, of Bradford, noted the occurrence of about eighty 
species. Some of these were of considerable interest, and one 
had not been previously certainly recorded for the county. 
The most prolific locality visited was Douk Gill, a narrow 
wooded ravine where the beck, which sinks underground at 
Hell Pot, on the side of Penyghent, resumes its above ground 
course ; here large Agarics were fairly plentiful, the plantation 
yielding six of the nine Russule seen, also the beautiful edible 
Clitopilus orcella, and a fine large Discomycete O¢zdea cochleata. 
The bare moorlands yielded few species, but a pretty white 
or primrose yellow form of Omphalia umbellifera was frequent 
on peaty banks high up Penyghent and Ingleborough, and 
Naucoria semiorbicularis abounded in the Sphagnum swamps. 
The Limestone Scar area proved the most barren, as was to 
be expected, nevertheless it provided Zhe find of the excursion, 
a solitary specimen, in perfect condition, of the beautiful and 
uncommon puffball Lycoperdon velatum Vitt., a species only 
recently added to the British Flora. 
The following is a complete list of the species found :— 
GASTROMYCETES. L. pyriformevar. excipuliforme Desm. 
Several specimens among grass 
at foot of Ash tree, Oxenber 
Wood. 
Bovista nigrescens. Among grass. 
Lycoperdon velatum. Among grass 
on rocky, bushy bank, Oxenber 
Wood. 
L. echinatum. Among grass, Oxen- 
ber Wood. 
1907 November 1. 
